b118 (1.5-1.2024): f--- news

f--- news [i]
by n. o. thing & ba d. news
 
f--- news (it isn’t real, which is why you leave [confused])
f--- news (it’s how i feel) ...so here’s the deal:
f--- news
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·       why would one spend anything but procrastination/entertainment time on a medium whose known goal is to sell clicks & tune-ins?
 
·       anyone who believes any of that sh-t – is as full of sh-t as the newsmakers.
 

you are what you believe.

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[i] martino, j. (1.5-1.2024). f--- news. book 118: night  day Game. © 2023 by joal martino. 

* query

1. if one is not allowed to question one's organization (or elders) about organizational practices or rules, then one belongs to a cult.  it would be impossible to have a rational conversation with such a person.

2. if you won't question your own beliefs about your organization, and if you promote the organization's beliefs, then you have become the cult.*  in fact, you are the problem.

3. if you don't believe the bulls---, but you promote the lie anyway (for the big paycheck), you are just fauxy-foxy-news.

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* an example would be akin to a mormon wife, promoting the benefits of polygamy (for men only). 

* if an individual can (in any way or form) justify that his/her holy leader murdered children and unborn babies... then that individual is beyond culted.  it's disgusting.

b88 (3.13-1.2020): "let's come together"

the only game in town ^[1]        
by m. arch & m. addness

alternative title: "let's come together" 

i watched the news today (it was the only game in town)
as news reporters (faint/persuade) the facts they toss around
they say “lets come together” while the clips they show (divide)
i watched the news today (a blend of captivating lies)
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·       news channels (particularly fox and msnbc) have lost the ability to report news.  did entertainment networks ever have the ability?

·       in any event, two ‘channels’ describe the same ‘news’ – but paint pictures of two diametrically-opposed worlds.

·       global, consumerized systems fail to avert crises.

·       now, we get to watch & listen to disaster (from the locked-down confines of our own, quarantined homes).

·       let’s "spend some time" (alone).
 
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[1] martino, j. (3.13-1.2020). the only game in town. book 88: marching into madness. © 2020 by wellnesseducation.us. 

b73 (2.13-1.2014): sen sationalism

sen sationalism [1] 
by zen sation 

although it might seem like a conspiracy, it is just human expression (coupled with capitalism).

every channel, website, commercial, newscast, etc. has one, ultimate goal (which you already know is not to report the truth).  this is different, however, from a conspiracy to lie.

the goal is simple: to get you to tune-in.  heck, we even do this (in the human sense) as part of the dating and mating game.

businesses make $$ (and people gain power) when they have y/our attention.  by design, the ‘news’ that gets reported/emphasized will be the stuff that gets y/our attention.  the photos, the verbiage and the predictions will sensationalize exponentially – knowing that today’s story will become yesterday’s news old.

that's why the news gives us the most sensational aspects of:

• storms
• catastrophes
• human drama
• war
• nature

are they lying?  are they 'bad'?  are they manufacturing the news???  that is for the (individual) viewer to decide. *

as consumers/viewers, it is our responsibility to re-center, and to re-cognize that newsmakers don’t care (so much) about reality as they do about getting us to tune-in.

again and again. 

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[1] martino, j. (2.13-1.14).  book 73: round trip © 2014 by joal martino. 

* truth be told, it is we (by our attention to it) that brings the (apparently external) news upon ourselves.